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 Makeshift opening batsman Sanjay Bangar today said he was happy to play second fiddle to the flamboyant Virendra Sehwag and their contrasting styles helped India get off to good starts. "Probably our contrasting styles of batting helps the team get good starts and that is very important from the team's point," said the Railways star who contributed a patient 55 in the record 201-run opening stand with Virendra Sehwag in the first innings of the opening Test against the West Indies here today.
"It is good to be at the other end when Sehwag is batting and it takes the pressure off you," said Bangar who had first opened with Sehwag during the England tour. Sehwag, who slammed a career best 147 runs, said Bangar and he "wanted to bat throughout the day".
"We knew we had crossed a small milestone but we wanted to continue even though the pitch was a little slow," he told reporters after the day's play.
 "I was well set and I decided to go for my shots but I got a snick," he said when asked about the shot that led to his dismissal, caught behind by Ridley Jacob off Mervyn Dillon.
Asked whether there were instructions from the dressing room before the match, Sehwag said "there were no instructions as such and we just went about building the innings and scoring off loose deliveries."
This was the Sehwag's third Test century and Bangar's second fifty. Bangar, who celebrates his 30th birthday on Friday, also has a century to his credit.
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